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Most Asians would marry ‘out’

22/ 2/2007

ONE-in-three Asian weddings in the north west cost over £30,000 a survey has revealed.

It also reveals that while Asians have a more traditional approach to getting married one-in-two men and women would marry outside their religion if they found the perfect partner.

The survey by BT polled over 1,000 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh men and women, a proportion of them in the north west.

It found that when Asians get hitched size certainly does matter with more that 300 guests at three-out-of-four Asian weddings.

The survey also reveals a contrast between the Asian community's more traditional values towards romance compared to the general British population.

The nationwide average age for marriage is 31 years for men and 29 years for women yet not a single Asian respondent thought it was ideal for a woman to marry in her thirties.

Amongst Asians, 77 per cent of people believe the ideal age for men to get married is 26 to 29 while nearly half said the ideal age for females started younger at between 22 and 25 years.

Attitudes on living with a partner outside of marriage also differed significantly from the national average. Only 56 per cent of Asians would cohabit with their partner before getting married and almost two thirds said they'd live with their in-laws after tying the knot.

Details of the survey were announced at the Asian Wedding Exhibition 2007 earlier in February in London.

The exhibition was opened by Miss Great Britain, Preeti Desai who was dressed as an Asian bride (pictured).

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